A53696:1043
Exercitations on the Epistle to the Hebrews
Exercitations on the Epistle to the Hebrews also concerning the Messiah wherein the promises concerning him to be a spiritual redeemer of mankind are explained and vindicated, his coming and accomplishment of his work according to the promises is proved and confirmed, the person, or who he is, is declared, the whole economy of the mosaical law, rites, worship, and sacrifice is explained : and in all the doctrine of the person, office, and work of the Messiah is opened, the nature and demerit of the first sin is unfolded, the opinions and traditions of the ancient and modern Jews are examined, their objections against the Lord Christ and the Gospel are answered, the time of the coming of the Messiah is stated, and the great fundamental truths of the Gospel vindicated : with an exposition and discourses on the two first chapters of the said epistle to the Hebrews / by J. Owen ...Exercitations on the Epistle to the Hebrews also concerning the Messiah wherein the promises concerning him to be a spiritual redeemer of mankind are explained and vindicated, his coming and accomplishment of his work according to the promises is proved and confirmed, the person, or who he is, is declared, the whole oeconomy of the mosaical law, rites, worship, and sacrifice is explained : and in all the doctrine of the person, office, and work of the Messiah is opened, the nature and demerit of the first sin is unfolded, the opinions and traditions of the antient and modern Jews are examined, their objections against the Lord Christ and the Gospel are answered, the time of the coming of the Messiah is stated, and the great fundamental truths of the Gospel vindicated : with an exposition and discourses on the two first chapters of the said epistle to the Hebrews / by J. Owen ...
London: printed by Robert White for Nathaniel Ponder, 1668
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§ 3 First, then the call of Abraham, which was the foundation whereon all the following Administrations of God towards his Posterity, and his whole Worship amongst them, were built, is excellently and fully described by our Apostle, chap. 11. v. 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19. By faith Abraham, when he was called, to go out into a place which he should afterwards receive for an inheritance, obeyed, and he went out, not knowing whither he went, (Gen. 11. v. 4.) By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: for he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God. (Gen. 12.13, 14.) Through faith also Sarah her self received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised. (Gen. 17. v. 19. chap. 21. v. 2.) Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea-shore innumerable. (v. 13. v. 16. Gen. 15. v. 5.) These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar of, and were persuaded of them, and embraced, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. (Gen. 23. v. 4. chap. 47.9. 1 Chron. 29.15.) For they that say such things declare plainly that they s•ek a country; and truly if they had been mindful of that from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. (Gen. 24. v. 5, 6, 7.) But now they desire a better, that is, an heavenly; wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he had prepared for them a city. By faith Abraham when he was tried offered up Isaac, and (or even) he that received the promises, offered up his only begotten son, of whom it was said, In Isaac shall thy seed be called, (so that he was his only begotten with respect unto